Politician
in an Effort to Test the Hypothesis That the Proportion

question 136

Essay

Politician
In an effort to test the hypothesis that the proportion of voters in the younger than 40 year old age bracket who will vote for a particular politician is different than the proportion voters in the above 40 age bracket,the following data was collected.
$$\begin{array} { | l | c | c | } \hline \text { Papulation } & \begin{array} { c } \text { Number Wha Will Vate } \\\text { far Palitician }\end{array} & \text { Sample Size } \\\hline \text { Below 40 } & 348 & 700 \\\hline \text { Above 40 } & 290 & 650 \\\hline\end{array}$$
-State the null and alternative hypotheses.
Use $\alpha$ = 0.10.State the decision rule in terms of the critical value.

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Definitions:

Wage

The fixed regular payment, typically calculated on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to manual or unskilled workers.

Diminishing Returns

A principle stating that adding an additional factor of production results in smaller increases in output.

Marginal Product

The additional output resulting from the use of one more unit of a factor of production.

Labor

Human effort used in the production of goods and services.